How to Put Together a Great Online Dating Profile

Sounds like an easy task, right? The process begins with just signing up to an online dating portal. Entering basic details like your age, hair and eye colour, weight and height and so on. The harder part comes in once you are done with all the small details – you must writing something in the “Describe yourself” space.

How do you go about it if you haven’t ever really thought about words that would describe you and your personality? It is even tougher than that – you need to put together sentences that best show your character and traits so you could attract a like minded person. There is pressure involved in this process, but we are here to help you out. Firstly we get you are coming from and will tell you all you need to know about how to create a great online dating profile without coming across arrogant, desperate and so on. Here is a list of what you need to do:

1. Consider Your Friend’s Opinion

Ask your closest friends to help you out – they most likely know you better than you know yourself. That makes them adequate for judging your personality. Ask them to describe you as a person, take notes, and then read through them and put them together and edit the whole thing into a great description.

Additional advice:

It isn’t the smartest idea to include the negative things your friends have brought up. Also avoid any clichés they may have mentioned. Even if you do love long walks on the beach, don’t mention it. And don’t forget to check your grammar.

2. Social Life

If you happen to be one of the people that equates social media with social activity, then you should go out more. Unless you actually are really introverted, you don’t want to leave that impression by saying you love to watch TV shows from dusk ’til dawn. Or that you hang on Facebook from dusk ’til dawn.

Additional advice:

Appearing healthy is attractive so list any sports you are remotely interested in. Also add any outdoor activities you like like hiking, going on picnics and so forth. Add whatever you love to do in public.

3. Pictures

At this point, you are almost done, but there are still some key things to consider. For one thing, you need to and there are three important things to remember when picking out what pictures to include in your dating profile: Add recent pictures. Whatever you did back in 1995 is irrelevant. Add recent summer pictures because several studies have concluded that those are found to be more attractive.
Add pictures where you are engaged in an activity. If you don’t have too many to pick from, ask a friend to help you out and take a picture of you riding a bike or going camping. In this case as well, studies have shown that people respond better to profiles with action pictures in them.

4. Who Would You Like to Meet?

Last but not least you must include information about who you would like to meet. It is important at this point to be precise and still realistic. The best idea is to focus on character and not physical appearances. For example: loves to try new things, loves reading, etc. Mentioning one or two small physical traits is okay but the focus should be on personality, hobbies and interests.

Use These Tips

The tips provided in this article are very basic but if you stick to them, you will get plenty of hits on your online profile soon. Remember to be honest and thorough about who you are and what exactly you are looking for. Good luck with your online dating!